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The Tatenokai (楯の会, 楯の會) or Shield Society was a private militia in Japan dedicated to traditional Japanese values and veneration of the Emperor. [2] [3] It was founded and led by author Yukio Mishima. [3]
Yukio Mishima [a] 三島 由紀夫, ... ("Shield Society"), a private militia, for the purpose of protecting the dignity of the Emperor as a symbol of Japan's ...
Patriotism was written in the autumn of 1960, shortly after the Anpo protests, which were said to have prompted Mishima's public turn towards right-wing politics. [4] The contradictory nature of Mishima's upbringing and the social context of Japan during the time in which he wrote Patriotism also motivated him to take a larger political stance in his writing. [5]
On November 25, 1970, Mishima committed seppuku after delivering a speech intended to inspire a coup d'état. [10] After Mishima's suicide his widow Yōko requested that all existing copies of the film be destroyed. But in 2005 the original negatives were discovered in perfect condition, in a tea box at a warehouse at their home in Tokyo. [11]
November 25 – In Tokyo, author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, including restoration of the powers of the Emperor , he commits ...
Masakatsu Morita (森田 必勝, Morita Masakatsu, 25 July 1945 – 25 November 1970) was a Japanese political activist who killed himself via seppuku with Yukio Mishima in Tokyo. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Morita was the youngest child of the headmaster of an elementary school.
The ritual suicide of one of Japan's most prominent novelists, Yukio Mishima, following a failed attempt to initiate a rebellion among Self-Defense Forces units in November 1970, shocked and fascinated the public.
Tatenokai militia leader and novelist Yukio Mishima (a pen name for Kimitake Hiraoka), along with four followers, took over the eastern headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in Ichigaya in an attempted coup d'état. [78]